http://derekcp.com/tags/search/Recent content in Search on When Pigs FlyHugoenTue, 16 Oct 2018 00:00:00 +0000http://derekcp.com/posts/search-topology/Tue, 16 Oct 2018 00:00:00 +0000http://derekcp.com/posts/search-topology/<p>The other night I burned way too many hours trying to fix a broken search service application for what seemed like a ridiculous reason. We have an integration server that we are using for a large project. I was working with it earlier in the day testing some front end code. Later in the evening with no apparent cause it decided to throw the error below on the Search Administration screen. This prevented search from operating and all my client side queries returned a nondescript 500 error telling me to check my search service.</p>http://derekcp.com/posts/custom-search-masterpage-for-sharepoint-2010-5/Tue, 07 Aug 2012 00:00:00 +0000http://derekcp.com/posts/custom-search-masterpage-for-sharepoint-2010-5/<p>I wish I could say that I was smart enough to have figured this one out for myself but I can&rsquo;t. I was working on my first custom branded SharePoint 2010 site and the search screen was all messed up. The navigation was displaying doubled. It turns out that the search center out of the box used minimal.master. This uses the placeholders that are in v4.master in different way so the search box ends up in the breadcrumb pull down. At any rate, <a href="http://blog.drisgill.com/2010/09/converting-custom-sharepoint-2010.html">Randy Drisgill</a> wrote a great and very easy to follow post about how to modify your custom masterpage to the search center. It took me longer to create the feature to deploy the new search masterpage than it did to make the modifications.</p>